Tents line up in a row along 5th Street where homeless live in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 28, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) OPINION: The Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling is just further proof of how much this country hates poor people. Editor’s note: The following article is…
A Maryland middle school teacher who was at the center of an online controversy that surfaced over a video he posted showing his students unbraiding his hair has been cleared of wrongdoing by his school district. That controversy stemmed from a livestream video that science teacher Marquis White posted on his TikTok account in May,…
Source: PATRICK T. FALLON / Getty In today’s episode of “DEI Hire” Is The New N-word, a former Donald Trump aide made a remark about Vice President Kamala Harris that was so demonstrably racist that even a host at Newsmax, the Wish version of Fox News, called him out on it. John Ullyot, who served in…
Actor Damson Idris in the paddock after the F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone Circuit on July 7, 2024 in Northampton, England. (Photo by Jayce Illman/Getty Images) Idris stars as Joshua Pearce, a rookie racing prodigy on the scene and mentee to Pitt’s Sonny Hayes, in “F1.” The first trailer for Damson Idris’…
Source: iOne Digital Creative Services Nearly 100 years ago, self-taught photographer Charles, “Teenie” Harris, who was born in 1908, started documenting Pittsburgh’s arts and cultural scene. Today, the Carnegie Museum of Art is home to 70,000 of his images. Many donned the pages of the Pittsburgh Courier at the Black newspaper’s height, beginning in the…
Source: iOne Digital Creative Services The photographer and filmmaker Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum is no newcomer to conversations about Black women’s self-esteem and how it is serially buffeted by the compound effects of patriarchy, social media, youth culture, and racism. In her still work and previous short film projects, the self-taught Mensah-Agyekum has proven herself a master…
Katt Williams has jokingly been blamed for opening the dark and chaotic portal that ushered in 2024, but to many of his peers he is known to be a stand-up guy. The comedic provocateur sent social media into a frenzy for weeks when he called out Hollywood personalities such as Steve Harvey, Cedric The Entertainer, and…
LeBron James reflects on his son Bronny joining him on the Los Angeles Lakers (Photos: Getty Images) This year during the NBA Draft, Bronny James was picked by the Los Angeles Lakers, joining his father LeBron James on the court for the 2024-’25 season. The apple hasn’t fallen too far from the tree in the…
Daniel Lewis, a 27-year-old Black father of two with a clean criminal record and a concealed weapons permit, was shot and killed by police in South Florida in a case that is raising more questions than providing answers. The son of a retired New York City police officer was killed on May 31 after being…
Bethann Hardison attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) After an impressive career as a fashion model, agent and advocate, Bethann Hardison shares her unique perspective on aging and some of…
